Sheltering Rain
A sweeping, family story of enduring love and heartache, told across generations and continents
$23.36
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2008
Summary
On Coronation night, the ex-pat community in Hong Kong gathers for a celebration party, and while they strain to listen to the wireless, twenty-one-year-old Joy falls in love at first sight. She is engaged within 24 hours, but will not see her fiancé again for a year.
In 1980, eighteen-year-old Patricia’s rebellion is to run away from County Wexford with her illegitimate child.
Fifteen years later, Sabine leaves trendy Hackney to visit the grandparents she doesn’t know, and fi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340960356 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340960353 |
| Author: | Jojo Moyes |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
Although the story jumps frequently from place to place and from one generation to the next, the author is able to make these effortless transitions for the reader. The characters are strong, believable and endearing - and will evoke recognition and sympathy from all ages … an enjoyable read and a promising debut novel. - Sunday Express
This perceptive novel does the mothers-and-daughters thing in page-turning style … Be sure that your bookmark is a hankie - ElleAn emotional roller-coaster of a read - CompanyThe attitudes of these strong-minded women and their generations are masterfully captured - HelloI enjoyed this novel very much - Rosamunde PilcherA very beautiful and very moving story - Lesley PearseThis is a remarkable first novel, rich and deep and full of wonderfully realized characters. Oh, these women! - Anne Rivers SiddonsA really really good book. One of the best I have read for you. I could identify with so much… It had everything going for it. It was well written with well rounded characters and a very good story to boot! Marks: 9⁄10. I am almost tempted to give it a 10⁄10! - Sarah Broadhurst book blogAbout The Author
Jojo Moyes
Jojo Moyes was born in 1969 and brought up in London. A journalist and writer, she worked for the Independent until 2001. She lives in East Anglia with her husband and three children.
Jojo has twice won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year Award: in 2011 for THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER and in 2003 for FOREIGN FRUIT. THE SHIP OF BRIDES and SILVER BAY were shortlisted for the 2005 and 2007 RNA award and SILVER BAY was shortlisted for the inaugural Good Housekeeping 2007 Book of the Year award.
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